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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.1, including
   a security fix.
   For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
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>      Remove security vulnerabilities that allowed connected users
      to read backend memory (Tom)
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>      The vulnerabilities involve suppressing the normal check that a SQL
      function returns the data type it's declared to, and changing the
      data type of a table column (CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556).  These
      errors can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in
      principle might be used to read database content that the user
      should not be able to access.
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>      Fix not-so-rare-anymore bug wherein btree index page splits could fail
      due to choosing an infeasible split point (Heikki Linnakangas)
     </P
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>      Fix Borland C compile scripts (L Bayuk)
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>      Properly handle <CODE
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>to_char('CC')</CODE
> for years ending in
      <TT
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> (Tom)
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>      Year 2000 is in the twentieth century, not the twenty-first.
     </P
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>      <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/contrib/tsearch2</TT
> localization improvements (Tatsuo, Teodor)
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>      Fix incorrect permission check in
      <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>information_schema.key_column_usage</TT
> view (Tom)
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>      The symptom is <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"relation with OID nnnnn does not exist"</SPAN
> errors.
      To get this fix without using <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>initdb</TT
>, use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE OR
      REPLACE VIEW</TT
> to install the corrected definition found in
      <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>share/information_schema.sql</TT
>.  Note you will need to do
      this in each database.
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>      Improve <TT
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>VACUUM</TT
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>      Fix for rare Assert() crash triggered by <TT
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>UNION</TT
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>      Fix potentially incorrect results from index searches using
      <TT
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>      Tighten security of multi-byte character processing for UTF8 sequences
      over three bytes long (Tom)
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>      Fix bogus <SPAN
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      due to attempts to fsync already-deleted files (Magnus, Tom)
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>      Fix bug that could cause the statistics collector
      to hang on Windows (Magnus)
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>      This would in turn lead to autovacuum not working.
     </P
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>      Fix possible crashes when an already-in-use PL/pgSQL function is
      updated (Tom)
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>      Improve PL/pgSQL handling of domain types (Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy, Tom)
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>      Fix possible errors in processing PL/pgSQL exception blocks (Tom)
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